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Own Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams
- Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
- But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires.…
- We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.
- What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?
- And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow…
- I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.
- Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the…
- The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.
- How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We…
- We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there…
- Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.
- The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov